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<div>Wayne,</div>
<div><x-tab> </x-tab>The
expression is certainly used in English for addressing metaphorical
blindness.</div>
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<div><x-tab> </x-tab>Here's
an excerpt from one of the twenty or so songs entitled "Open your
eyes". This one is by the punk band NOFX. (I don't listen to this
stuff at all, but it was the first really clear example out of the 5.5
million hits when I googled "open your eyes".)</div>
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<div><font face="Lucida Grande" size="-3" color="#000000">At first I
thought you were dead<br>
But now i see that you're wanted dead<br>
Something I did, and they say yeah yeah<br>
Blank gen, blank gen(eration)<br>
Open your eyes<br>
Open your eyes<br>
Can't you see what's going on<br>
Open your eyes<br>
Open your eyes<br>
Can't you see what's going wrong<br>
Open your eyes<br>
Well they tell you lies and you sing along<br>
Open your eyes</font></div>
<div><font face="Lucida Grande" size="-3" color="#000000">Well they
tell you lies and you sing along</font></div>
<div><font face="Lucida Grande" size="-3"
color="#000000"> etc., etc.</font></div>
<div><br></div>
<div><x-tab> </x-tab>But I
also think you're right that it can't refer to the correction of
literal blindness in English.</div>
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<div>Rich</div>
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<div>At 10:39 PM -0800 2/3/08, Wayne Leman wrote:</div>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Is the collocation "open eyes"
ever used in any standard dialect of English<br>
for a meaning other than 'to open one's eyelids" (e.g. upon
waking up from<br>
sleep)?<br>
<br>
I am particularly interested to know if a literal translation of
the<br>
Hebraism "open eyes", meaning 'regain eyesight', is ever
used in any<br>
standard dialect of English?<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Wayne<br>
-----<br>
Wayne Leman<br>
Cheyenne dictionary online:<br>
<a href="http://cheyenne.110mb.com">http://cheyenne.110mb.com</a><br>
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